Judges and Judiciary
Dec. 29, 2011
Riverside launches civil settlement program
Riverside County's presiding judge is launching a new program in which she will carve out several days a month from her administrative duties to try to settle complex cases on the civil court's crowded trial dockets.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
RIVERSIDE - Court officials in fast-growing Riverside County, which has one the highest judge-to-case ratios in California, say they've worked hard to try to ease the county's congested civil calendars.
Their efforts include enlisting a cadre of assigned judges to hear trials in converted classrooms in a former elementary school, whittling down cases through a local bar association medi...
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